Culmore Clinic Announces Lynette Sappe-Watkins as New Executive Director
Lynette Sappe-Watkins, Culmore Clinic’s New Executive Director
Culmore Clinic is excited to announce that beginning on April 10, Lynette Sappe-Watkins will become the organization’s new Executive Director. Sappe-Watkins comes to Culmore Clinic having served as Executive Director for the Physician Associate Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia for the previous eight years.
In her new role, Sappe-Watkins will provide strategic and operational leadership at Culmore Clinic, with responsibilities that include overseeing the clinic’s operational duties and financial effectiveness. Sappe-Watkins will implement the clinic’s strategic goals while monitoring the community needs and priorities to best serve patients, among myriad other responsibilities.
Sappe-Watkins has spent over 20 years in nonprofit leadership and fundraising roles including with the American Pharmacist Association Foundation, Home Safety Council and Safe Kids Worldwide and the American Red Cross in Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC.
“The Culmore Clinic has been serving uninsured patients in the Bailey’s Crossroads region for over 15 years, and we are thrilled that Lynette will be the Clinic’s Executive Director for the next phase of its growth. She brings the skills and experience as a non-profit leader to build on the Clinic’s legacy and expand its role in ensuring that everyone in our community has access to healthcare,” said Philip Eliot, President of the Board of Directors.
"I am thrilled to take on this role at Culmore Clinic,” says Sappe-Watkins. “The work of the Clinicis vital to serving the health and wellness needs of our local community and I am honored to be a part of an organization that benefits patients in such an important way. I'm looking forward to working with the Board, Clinic staff and volunteers to continue to expand our presence and our services, providing both routine and life-changing medical resources to the community.”
Pyramind LLC, a retained executive search firm, supported the Board of the Culmore Clinic in the search.